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Monographs
The heart of our catalogue... each book presents the photographic work of an artist, whether on a specific project or under the form of a retrospective or compendium.
Monographs There are 1436 books.
Prolifération (*w/ signed print*)
.Sold out. Publisher's presentation: "Published to coincide with the exhibition of a series of photographs by Geert Goiris at the Mauvoisin Dam (Valais, Switzerland), this sublime series of 30 images suggests a timelessness and contained restlessness through its potential narratives of place and collective memory. Labyrinthine trees, strange rock...
Publisher's presentation: "Celebrated and revered by artists, the work of Peter Hujar remains something of a public secret, but his photographs dealing with sex and eroticism, made between the years 1969 and 1986, have come to define a certain era in New York. Today they are widely considered to be among his finest and most radical work. Hujar’s view of...
42,00 €Out of stockMay the Circle Remain Unbroken
.Sold out.Publisher's presentation: "Corinne Day's photographs influenced a generation of fashion and documentary image makers. Her pictures unflinchingly documented her life and relationships with a realist snapshot aesthetic-representing a youth culture set against the glamour of fashion and avoiding fictionalisation or voyeurism. Gaining notoriety both...
.Sold out. Publisher's presentation: "238.000 miles of space between the Earth and the Moon: an inestimable distance that maps can only suggest.Moon Trail is the personal quest of Alfonso Almendros, which call the reader to retrace his steps like an investigator on a cold case. Studies of lunar features, uncertain maps of imagined lofty mountains and...
Butterfly Had a Dream (*signé*)
.Sold out.A really beautiful book, at the same time a simple story and a complex story, that of a woman, a mother, and the apparent absence of a father. The difficult days, the neighborhood, the weekends or vacation at the sea... Atsushi Fujiwara makes with Butterfly Had a Dream the brilliant portrait of a woman.76 pages - Hardcover, no DJ Sokyu-sha, 2014...
.Sold out.Publisher's presentation: "Atlas Monographs is a compression of eight travel journals, beginning with Pam’s most recent work (Karakoram 2006) and shifting back through the decades to his first journals begun in 1970. The journals map, through text, photo and marks on paper his engagement with the cultures he has travelled through. Just as...
59,00 €Out of stock.Back in stock.Presentation by Jean-Marc Caimi: "Sex, food, nature, the city where I live, my son, relationships, friends, family, even fleeting encounters, these moments enrich me as a human being. They are archetypal, belonging to a common DNA, the essence of our very biology. They are at the root of my existence, hovering in the pictures of my...
35,00 €Out of stock.Sold out. Artist's presentation: "It is easy to fight for the rights of people who shout out loud in protest. It is much more difficult to notice those who do not manifest openly. The Stigma Project tells the story of the 60-member family of Romanian Roma, living in an encampment on the outskirts of the city of Wroclaw in Poland. But this is not another...
.Back in stock. Publisher's presentation: "An inner courtyard faces a row of rooms where prostitutes take their clients. Out of view at an opposite window, the photographer witnesses what should remain unseen. Issues such as prostitution or pornography only become problematic when the system, or a society at the service of that system, deem them to be so....
28,00 €Out of stock.Last copy.Publisher's presentation: "Madrid’s Atocha station was formerly known as Mediodía (Midday), as it was the city’s Southbound railway hub. This is the location where David Hornillos worked between 2011 and 2014, during the central hours of the day. Mediodía presents an enveloping world of orange brick bathed in a vibrant light that irresistibly...
28,00 €Out of stock.Back in stock.Publisher's presentation: "Zhang Xiao started his journey from 2009-2013 along the coastline of China. China has long coastline from the mouth of Yalu river in Liaoning province in the north to the mouth of Beilun river in Guangxi province in the south. In all, it is a continuous eighteen thousands kilometers. There are great changes every...
65,00 €Out of stockCarpoolers (*Limited Edition*)
.Sold out. Carpoolers is a beautiful series of portraits or - as Marc McCann called them in his NY Times Lens blog piece - "still-lifes" of Mexican workers commuting in the back of trucks. Shooting his images from above, Alejandro Cartagena gets the full content of the truck without its environment (except for the road and the roof and hood of the...
.Sold out.We are now offering the 2nd edition of the "Carpoolers" book.Carpoolers is a beautiful series of portraits or - as Marc McCann called them in his NY Times Lens blog piece - "still-lifes" of Mexican workers commuting in the back of trucks. Shooting his images from above, Alejandro Cartagena gets the full content of the truck without its...
The Brightest Light Runs Too Fast (*w/...
.Sold out. Publisher's presentation: "Ren Hang explores liberating the body from its restraints. He focuses on strange forms and expressions, sensitively capturing the exaggerated, absurd, and extreme bodily movements that challenge visual and psychological norms"This book comes with a very special cover : a thermal process reveals, when the covers is...
Ils pensent déjà que je suis folle
Publisher's presentation: "Kourtney Roy (...) is the example of the uninhibited and sincere artist who does not take herself seriously." A rising star in fashion and commercial photography, she was awarded the Carte Blanche PMU in 2013. Model and photographer at the same time: to play, to experiment, to have fun, these words seem to guide the personal...
25,00 €In Stock.Back in stock.Presentation by Steidl: Saul Leiter’s early black and white photographs "The distinctive iconography of Saul Leiter's early black and white photographs stems from his profound response to the dynamic street life of New York City in the late 1940s and 50s. While this technique borrowed aspects of the photodocumentary, Leiter's imagery was...
65,00 €Out of stockMorning Sun (*Limited Edition*)
.Sold out. Presentation on Matej Sitar's website: "What does it mean to become a father for the first time? How will everything change, what will the days look like and what will be the new routine? Well, I can’t tell the answers to any of those questions, at least not now anyhow. The intriguing part before going through all of this is the relationship...
Presentation on the artist's website: "What does it mean to become a father for the first time? How will everything change, what will the days look like and what will be the new routine? Well, I can’t tell the answers to any of those questions, at least not now anyhow. The intriguing part before going through all of this is the relationship with the...
35,00 €In StockBetween the Lake and the Sea (*signed*)
.Sold out.Presentation on the artist's website: "I have always had a deep respect for people who go to sea. In their lives, water has a deeper meaning than relationships with people around them. The sea is larger than anyone – it is more than simply a means of subsistence, more than survival. I returned to the village where I spent my childhood, to try...
As Dust Alights - 2nd edition (*signed*)
.Sold out.As Dust Alights is the book of a photographer that takes the time to look at things, that uses his eyes in a very special way. Vincent Delbrouck offers a very calm and peaceful account of what his eyes saw on a trip into the Himalayas; they saw forms, colors, textures, contrasts, they saw the beautiful in the insignificant... The body and the...
.Sold out.Publisher's presentation: "Narcolepsy radically delivers a process that shakes-up the form of the book to produce the art as book and the book as art. The book is a fully realised graphic vehicle. The ways in which the book operates as a series of closures and openings, also parallels the content of the book and amplifies it as an evocative,...
Kitchen Stories from the Balkans (*signed*)
.Sold out.In Kitchen Stories from the Balkans, Eugenia Maximova lays her eyes on the kitchen interiors from a region she wanted to remain generic : "the balkans". The artist creates an atmosphere that is a bit outdated, offering us what could be seen as a series of still-lifes that depict the calm of kitchens that could very well be that of our...
Publisher's presentation : "Japan from the inside of a dreaming brain. Matters dissolves. Indomitable beasts roar, prisoners of a mirage. Everything enters into an incorporeal and alucinatory state.Everything changes and everything repeats itself, everything changes and everything repeats itself, everything changes and everything repeats itself."44 pages...
25,00 €In StockAway From Home (*Limited Edition*)
.Sold out.Away From Home is a portrait - in a honest and warm-hearted manner - of the sometimes harsh reality of the Turkish Eastern immigration in the city of Istanbul.Kursad Bayhan, in dense and grainy black & white images builds a sombre yet lively atmosphere. This self-published book is a really beautiful work, and very well printed too ! A great...
.Sold out.Publisher's presentation : "Carrying out this photograph project is because of the inspiration after reading the novel River of the North written by Zhang Chengzhi. Attracted by the powerful words in this novel, I decided to take a walk along the Yellow River to experience and feel the father-like broad and wide brought from this river, so that...
Stags, Hens and Bunnies (*signed*)
Publisher's presentation: "Blackpool has an unenviable reputation for its stag and hen parties. Every weekend marauding packs of brides and grooms, close friends and family, overflow its streets on a mission to consume dangerous, liver-crushing levels of alcohol. This, their rite of passage acted out on the last night of freedom, before the conventions...
40,00 €Out of stockTrepat - Limited Edition (*signed*)
.Sold out.Publisher's presentation: "En 1914 le magnat industriel Josep Trepat Galceran crée une industrie pour la production de machines agricoles qui deviendra un des moteurs économiques de l’Espagne au cours du XXème siècle. Homme cultivé et attentif aux dynamiques de l’art de son temps, M. Trepat va passer des commandes à quelques uns des grands...
Hackney Photographs 1985-1987 (*signed*)
.One signed copy available!. Publisher's presentation: "Located in east London just north of The City, Hackney has a long history stretching back to Tudor times. During the 1980s when Berris Conolly took these photographs it was an area that had been in decline. This was a decade of turmoil in both national and local politics with issues of social justice...
75,00 €Out of stock.Copy sold.Full title: PARTY, Quotations from Chairman Mao Tsetung or - as indicated on the cover - PARTY, Quitonasto Form Chanmair Mao TungestPublisher's presentation: «PARTY was conceived by Cristina after a first trip to China in 2012, undertaken in the aim of “making photography, of reacting with the camera to whatever caught my attention, without any...
Trying to Find the Ocean (*signed*)
Presentation from the author's website: "Trying to Find the Ocean depicts a rampage-like journey through the city of Baltimore. Michael Ast incorporates both an intense outward gaze on the urban environment and its inhabitants, and an inward gaze, employing images to function esoterically as emotive and cognitive intimations. The sequencing reads at once...
32,00 €In StockPublisher's presentation: "The photographers of Timeshow are storytellers, and for this special issue we picked the best black and white storytellers, people who use the deepest shades of photographic blacks just as a writer would use the darkest ink to picture his world. Emotions and information mingle in their works to reveal unexpected aspects of the...
21,00 €In Stock.Sold out.A beautiful inner journey in an unknown place, landscapes and faces, printed in light grey shades on a paper of a sand-like color (the 1st edition was on a grey/blue paper).Publisher's presentation: “And where is it, this place?” “That’s the point, it is nowhere. It is quite impossible to say that it is located anywhere in the geographical...
